Wild Bird Charity

Analysis

Wild Bird Charity is a registered charity in United States, based in Bellingham, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Wild Bird Charity reported income of $104k and spending of $146k, spending 140% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $130k to $104k (-20%), an average of -5.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 87%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Wild Bird Charity sits at the 36th percentile: it is larger than about 36% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 38th percentile, and in the 34th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Denison Service League ($104k), Institute for Work and the Economy a Not-For-Profit Corporation ($104k) and Economic Development Corporation of the County of Delta ($104k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 110% of the total. At year end it held assets of $161k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $161k.